Update November 2016: The issuing of ICCs is still restricted as per the paragraph below. Currently, no organisation can issue a certificate to just any citizen.

The good news is that now anyone can now obtain an ICC.

If you are a citizen or a resident of a country signed up to the UN Resolution 40 (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom) then your national sailing authority is the only authority which can issue your ICC. Citizen of other countries can obtain one using an organisation such as those identified below.

The U.K.'s RYA now also offers certified training courses through out the world. However, the RYA can only issue ICCs to nationals of non-Resolution 40 countries. See www.rya.org.uk/wheresmynearest for a list of recognised centres world-wide.

There is a small sailing school operating in the western Med (Sardinia, Corsica and Elba) which is affiliated to the IYT (International Yacht Training Wordwide) organisation and can offer courses that will enable British and non UN Resolution 40 country citizens to receive an ICC. It was previously believed that it was possible to obtain an International Certificate of Competence through the Ocean Wind Sailing School (www.oceanwind.ch) whatever your nationality, but this is not correct. For more information contact John Parsons at [email protected]

The ICC is particularly valuable to those cruisers who which to explore the inland waterways of Europe as the necessary CEVNI endorsement to the ICC can be then taken online.

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